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. LEWIS W. TEETER, 0F HAGERSTOWN, INDIANA.

Letters Patent No. A59,872, dated Nocember 20, 1866.

'ro ALL WHoM 1r MAY coNcERN;

Be it known that I, LEWIS W. TEETER, of Hagerstown, in the county of Wayne, and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful improvement in Flour Packer; and I do hereby decla-re that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable othersV` skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying-drawings forming part of this spccilication, in which- Figure 1 is a sectional view of my improved iiour packer, taken through the line x fc, fig. 2.

Figure 2 is a side view of the same Figure 3 is a'd'etail sectional view taken through the line y y, fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

My invention has for its object to furnish--an improved tiour packer by means of which the our may b packed more evenly than it can be with the packers now in use, and it consists in the arrangement of certain parts, as will be hereinafter more fully explained. p

A is the frame of the machine; B is the circular platform upon which the barrel stands While heilig filled. This circular platform moves up and down, through a hole in the table, al, attached to the frame, A, of the'machine, and is attached to the upper end of the slide-bar C. The bar C slides inguides attached to the cross-bars a2 and a3 of the frame, and to its front side is attached a rack D; E is a shaft revolving in bearings attached to the frame A, as shown, and to which motion is given by any convenient power. To the shaft E is attached a 'cog-wheel F, which meshes into' the teeth of the rack D, and by its revolution raises and and lowers the slide C B; and the barrel G is an eccentric. cog-Wheel, made in the form represented in` tig. 2, the teeth of which mesh into the teeth of the inclined rack H, attached to the lower linclined end of the slide bar I; the bar I slidesin guides attached1 to the side of the frame A. J is 'a lever pivoted to a support attached to the side of the frame A. The free end of the lever J extends out in front of the machine, so that it can be operated.; by hand, when neccessary. The rear end of the lever J is connected by a link to the spring-catch K, as shown in gs. 1 and 2. The other end of the catchK is attached' to the side out the frame A. L is a lever pivoted to the side of the frame A,in such a position that its lower end, when drawn in, will catchupon and be held by the spring-catch K. M is aspring, one end of which is attachedv to the frame A, and the other end presses against the lower part of the lever L, forcing it out whenever it is released from the catch K. N isv an arm attached to the lower end of the lever L, by means of which, the said lower end of the lever may be drawn in so as to come in contact with the catch K. The upper-'end ot the lever-L is pivoted to the end of the slide O, which slides in guides P, upon the 'top of the frame A, and 'the other end of 'which is connected to the end of the shaft It, in such a way .as not to interfere with the revolution of said shaft. The shaft R revolves in bearings attached to the upper cross-piece a* of the frame A, in which it can move freely in the'direction of its length, as it is operated upon by the lever L. S is a bevel gear-Wheel,v the teeth of which mesh into the teeth of the bevel gear-wheet'lfattachcd to the upper end of the vertical shaft Vis thehopper, which is attached to and supported by the frame A. The upper part, 1:1, of the hopper is cylindrical; the central part, U2 cone-shaped and the lower part, v3, cylindrical, and of such a size as to enter a flour barrel and reach almost to itsbottom. The shaft V is supported by and revolves in bearings in the upper cross-piece a4 ot' the frame A. This'sh'a-ft extends down to the lower end of the hopper, and is'kept in its proper position by bearings W attached to the sides of the part, v3, of the said hopper. To the lower end of the shaftU is attached the auger or screw packer X, which has three wings curved into the form shown in figs. 1 and 3, so that, as the screw revolves, the said Wings may slide over the iiour, pressing it down into the barrel. A is a-hand-wheel, the shaft of which revolves in bearings attached to the side of the frame B is a pinion-Wheel attached to the shaft of the hand-wheel A and which meshes into the teeth of the rack C', attached to the side of the 'slide bar I, as shown in iig. 2; D is a friction lever, one end of ywhich terminates in a rubber, and rests against the face of the hand-wheel A. To the other end of said lever is suspended the movable weight E', by means of which the pressure upon the hand-wheel A is regulated -as required- By means of this arrangement of gearingthebarrel can` be raised and .lowered by hand when desired, without starting the machinery. In using the machine, the empty barrel is placed upon the circular platform B, and then raised" either by reversing the action of the machineor by means of the hand-Wheel A', until the screw packer X reaches almost to the bottom of the barrel. Then by'dr'awing in the lower end of tl1e le/er L, by means ofthe rod N, until the spring-crutch grasps it, the machine' is thrown into gear and started. As the our passes through the hopper into the bar-- rel, it is pressed down by the screw packer X, the ,barrel att-he same time descending and the slide I ascending. By the time the barrel is lled, the pin F, attached to the side of the said slide I, is brought in Contact with the lever J, and raises it. YThis frees the lever L fromy the catch K, When the action of the sp1-in g M immediately throws the mnehinoe ont of gear and stops it. Ther lled lbarrel can then be removed and an .empty one put in its place to be filled in turn.

That I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The Hour packer, the operating parte of which consist of the platform B, rack slide C D, eccentric G, inclined rack H, slide L pin: F, lever J, spring-ateh K', Spring lever L, Slide O, shaft R, gear S T, shaft packer X, when constructed and-arranged to operate together substantially as and for the purpose specied.

- LEWIS W. TEETER. Witnesses:

WATKIN WILLIAMS, Tues. N. WILLIAMS. 

